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Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts and Gardens
Eve Lazarus
Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2012. 160 pp. $24.00 paper.
EVE LAZARUS IS a Vancouver-based freelance writer and self-confessed obsessive blogger about houses and their genealogies. Her passion for history, the arts, old houses, and her community has resulted in three previous books: At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Vancouver's Heritage Homes; Frommer's Vancouver with Kids; and The Life and Art of Frank Molnar, Jack Hardman and LeRoy Jensen (which she co-authored). She has now extended her scope to include British Columbia's capital city in Sensational Victoria: Bright Lights, Red Lights, Murders, Ghosts and Gardens, an attractive and lavishly illustrated popular history that is promoted as a "must-read for both history buffs and regular visitors to The Garden City."
Sensational Victoria is an eclectic compendium of...